Prices It’s a gas P Flavescence 2014: What next… Prices Well, it’s the talk of the town; onwards and upwards is the only way – or so it currently seems. Burgundy, just like Bordeaux has seen boom and bust pricing over many generations – we current enjoy, or rather, the… Read More

  Despite having no Grand Crus to call its own, Nuits appended the name of its most important vineyard, Les St.Georges, on the 10th May 1892 to become Nuits-Saint-Georges – before that it was described as Nuits-sous-Beaune. When the railway came in 1849 the station here was… Read More

Here’s a compendium of wines tasted with producers between the 1st December 2010 and the end of March 2011. They are mainly 2009s and 2008s – I tasted lots of 2010s in this period, but far too early to make notes – there’s not much value telling you that Romanée-Conti… Read More

No slurping or spitting! This is a compendium of wines that were drunk with food, friends and family, between April 2009 and the end of July 2009. 70 bottles are listed here, but there are another 155 dotted through this Summer Report that it didn’t make sense to list… Read More

August 2012: The owner of the Château de Gevrey-Chambertin, Elisabeth Masson-Mitéran, died in November 2011 and her heirs subsequently decidide to sell. It is now ‘official‘ that the Château has been sold to Chinese investors. Ordinarily this might cause a few mutterings, but the temperature has been raised… Read More

The Wonder that is Domaine Romanée-Conti By Bruce Palling An edited version of this report appears on The Economist’s More Intelligent Life website. When it comes to getting an accurate picture of our individual knowledge, perhaps the quickest way to nail down our context would be to… Read More